news & features

• Mystery e-mails attack Howard Dean’s Israel stance

• Israelis invent a gun that can shoot around corners

• Olmert’s shocking plea could change course of Israel’s history

• Wall supported, Syria blasted at AIPAC events

• New Hampshire Jews lean toward Dean

• Chanukah party in Prague reveals growing strength of unaffiliated Jews in Europe

• In Berlin, Sharansky visits the bridge to his past

• Hamas terror in Canada?

• Mitzvah days: No longer just a ‘once-a-year thing’

• From jugglers to the Jerusalem Quartet, new JCC will be host

• Who’s in town:

  Surprise visitor to JCF — it’s Gephardt

• In Cairo talks, Hamas shows it wants to call the shots

• Shorts: Mideast

• Shorts: U.S.

• Shorts: World

• No Dec. 26 paper

• Spin, dreidel, spin! — Jewish center sets a new record

• Story of anti-Semitic lynching as brutal now as 90 years ago

• Bee-witched — ‘Spellbound’ director views spelling contests as ‘American dream story’

• A cautionary tale of hero worship and anti-Semitism

• Ruined Indiana Holocaust museum hopes to revive by summer

• Board of rabbis condemns death penalty

• COVER STORY: Toy with me — From his first Chanukah, Daniel Grossman was hooked on toys, but no

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• S.F. Jewish Democratic club grows in 20 years from grassroots to major muscle

• Role of Jews in labor movement past and present visible in S.F. exhibit

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• Small gay kiss puts Israeli hit in local theaters

• Ex-Berkeley girl makes Bay Area homecoming — as circus aerialist

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• My friends, my work, my life — can you really be ‘too Jewish’?

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• Envisioning enemies as flawed, wounded people — just like us

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• Parsnip or cheese latkes? Where there’s oil, there’s tradition

opinions & letters

• Saddam’s capture offers hope at Chanukah

• How about the ‘Monaco accord,’ my own peace plan?

• To fulfill Ben-Gurion’s dream, we must develop Israel’s desert

• Message to both parties: Don’t count your kosher chickens yet

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• It’s in the cards:

  Playful new way to tell Chanukah story

• A present from, and to, Israel:

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